IF IF IF! the top 10 list is being used as an incentive to get people interested in reading SMUT or joining an EROTIC story sight, then really, it's giving a very skewed idea of what they are going to find here, and omg, i SO write a bit of poetry myself, and i don't think that it should be eliminated from the top 10, but it DOES make sense to give it a seperate catagory, so that people looking for high quality SMUT can find it - also, the issue with Poetry, and i fall into this trap as well, is that it's usually pretty personal, and i have a hard time giving it a lower score cause it is more likely to be taken personally...
Oh, for the record, from now on, I will be rating my OWN stories, giving them all 1’s, the explanation being that hey, pretty much the rest of the feed back I’m given will be honest, rather then an attempt to knock me out of a spot in the top 10 I have NO chance of getting, also, from now on, IF I give something a 5, it better be fucking perfect, anything else gets a 4 or a 3 – really, if you think about it, 4 is pretty damn good, but scores here HAVE become inflated, because, lets be honest, not ALL of them are based on reality, some of them are based on popularity or who has the most friends, or who can work the system better,.
Ok, a word about this site in general – it’s my sole site for posting stories, the mods make it easy, painless, do a good fucking job, and I KNOW that none of the obvious frustration here is aimed at them or the site, it’s just a frustration, as Doll said, that has been brewing for a while behind the curtains, caused by someone taking weeks to craft a work of erotic art and to find themselves suddenly lost because 10 others have sat down and written heart touching 8 lines of really lovely love poems that afternoon – I just think, like others, that the two are separate beasts, you got your dogs, you got your cats, give them a separate pen to play in – spotlight your budding Keats and Shellys and ee cummings fairly, AND spot light your Steinbecks and Rands just as fairly…
AS example, one of my low scores on a poem was accompanied by a comment along the line of : I wanted something to get off to, and this was bullshit – and I LEFT it there, cause he was right! I think that, readers have a right to go into the top ten and expect that the story there will be something that will leave them tittalated, Or if they want to be moved, they can dwelve into the poetry top 10 and KNOW what they will find there! No confusion! It’s NOT just about the writers, it’s about the BASE here, which is probably 90% non writers/reader to 10% writers – if I’m going to sign on to an erotic story sight, I want some erotica, and I probably don’t want to spend TOO much time or effort to find it.
Ok, damnit it, I couldn’t let this go and yes, you are allowed to disagree with me but if you do you are WRONG! *giggles*
Ps – despite being quite drunk, I stand behind every single word I wrote, even word #21 in the third paragraph!